On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 21:10 -0700, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > There is more information here: > > http://www.cio.com/article/588163/Oracle_Enacts_all_Or_Nothing_Hardware_Support_Policy?taxonomyId=3234
...snip.... Oracle (ORCL) has adopted what amounts to an "all or nothing" hardware support policy, according to a document the vendor has posted on its Web site. The policy, which went into effect March 16, states that "when acquiring technical support, all hardware systems must be supported (e.g., Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems) or unsupported." It includes all systems running Solaris version 10.9 or later, those running Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM, as well as "all hardware systems for which you have applied services received under a technical support contract for another hardware system (including sharing of updates, patches, fixes, security alerts, work-arounds, configuration/installation assistance or parts)." ....snip.... Am I missing something here, it seems like Oracle is pushing a unified support policy, it applies to Solaris, Linux and Oracle VM. This seems quite normal for a large company. The main issue is how do Oracle address the SMB marketplace, if they consider it a marketplace worthy of their time and effort. It will take 12-18 months before we see the full outcome of the Oracle takeover of Sun. Solaris is one of the crown jewels of the Sun takeover, slowly killing Solaris would be foolish unless their intention is to move the Solaris DB users to Enterprise Linux. I don't see Oracle putting their OS future into the hands of Redhat. As Redhat continues to grow it will start to take business away from Oracle and that is when Oracle will clearly need to own it's own OS. Just my $.02! Regards, Paul _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
